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ATHENA.JUNE 22 1906
There is one policy in which the
Mil too Eagle endeavors to be consis
tent, and that is the knocking it gives
to the normal sohooL The Eagle may
throw down the prohibitionists with
impunity .when election campaigns
are on, by ref nsing support to their
prinoipal candidate, bat it "knocks"
the normal first, last and all the
time. However, in this instance, every
"knock" is as good as a "boost." The
Eagle will never be "remembered"
when at the nest legislative session,
the will of the people on the appropri
ation amendment is ratified and the
news comes up from Salem that East
ern Oregon is to have a permanent
normal school at Weston, and West
ern Oregon at Monmouth.
The canal has already cost the gov
era meat abont $76,000,000 in cash,
in addition to the $10,000,000 paid
to the French canal company. $10,
000,000, went to the merry little re
pnblio of Panama for the strip and in
two appropriations abont. $35,000,000
has been provided for construction
work. The sundry civil bill has just
made provision for $35,000,000 more
for the work of bnilding the canal.
There is a stipulation in this bill that
the amount named shall be reimbursed
to the treasury through the sale of
, bouds already authorized for oaual
purposes. The evident intent of con
gress is to throw the xemaining bur
den of the canal upon the future by
paying for it with iuterest bearing
notes rather than with cash.
The stove toundry at the Orogou
peuiteutiary could be profitably sup
planted by the substitution of a jute
mill, snob as operated in Washiugton
state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
Grain suokg made by convict labor in
this state would greatly lessen the cost
of sucks to the farmer. Besides the
niuuufucture of tbo product would not
eouie iu competition with the private
enturpri.su to lh extent Unit the man
ufacture of stoves does.
Why s hould the American eiti.ou
or oitizous who pays $500 iu good mou
ey to be enrolled in an "America's
smart sot" be made a target for the
mordant jeers of the iuoousiderate pop
uluoe? How are we going to have an
American aristooaroy if tho crowd in
tho bleachers are permitted to para
lyze exalted ambition by hooting at
tho patieut performers in tho field?
Our Carpet
which is now looated on tbo soooud floor ot our new building contains
the best showing of floor fabrics that can befouud iu Eastern Washiugton,
it comprises the latest aud best designs iu carpet styles, embracing a
handsome variety of Orieutal floral aud colorings. Mauy of the patterns
preseut uovel efleots, and coloriucs aud a goodly portion of our attractive
display is entirely exclusive. They are simply works of art. The colors,
patterns aid combinations are exquisite and will chime with any colors of
walls or furniture. Come aud select where you have tho largest selootiou
aud tho most reasonable prioes.
Use
Our
Rest
Rooms
TIIEDAVIS-KASERCO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12-14 16.18 30-22 Alder Street,
WALLA WALLA, -:- WASH
If we are not to have a "Burke's Peer
age" edited by society writers and
sold on subscription to people who
want their names mentioned, we are
left with no standards of aristocracy
whatever. It is very evident that a
permanent social distinction can never
be established in the United States if
grand juries are to be forever prying
into the circumstances by which the
title to social standard is acquired.
Whenever a lot of greedy "skinners"
or would-be monopolists find them
selves checked by beneficent laws, in
the schemes for devastating the forests,
absorbing the water rights, "fencing
in" the publio range for their private
herds, or monopolizing the lands whioh
the nation has sought to preserve for
the small farmer and home-make.r
they at once assume the attitude of
special champions of what they call
"the right of the people. " This is the
attitude in whioh Senator Heyburn
would like to be viewed as he elo
quently pleads for the rights of a few
lumbermen to devastate the mountain
forest reserve of Idaho.
The Secretary of the Interior has
made a ruling upon section five of the
reclamation act, whioh provides that
no sale of water from a government
project shall be made to any land own
er unless he is an actual bona fide res
ident on suoh land, or an occupant
thereof residing in the neighborhood.
In the ruling the secretary fixed the
limit of distanoe of residence from
the land at twenty miles in a diroct
line.
Smoking cars for women are now
being run on English railways. The
future hubby over there may complain
that his wife's cigarettes are not as
good as those bis mother used to roll.
A London man recently paid $600
for an orohid. He might have bought
an entire prune ranch in Arizona for
that price. Some people seem to have
queer ideas of the value of things.
The life insurance MoOurdys still
have one claim to distinction in being
about the only persons who are made
defendants daily in suits from $3,
000,000 up.
Mails are carried ou deer routes in
Alaska. There are some dear routes
here, too, if the post office appropria
tion bill is to be depended on.
An English author says that he
wrote a story in his sleep and received
pay for it. He simply lies in a pecu
liar way. ' ..' ,
A SIMPLE COMPARISON.
From an Exchange.
Charles M. Sohwab, the young mil
lionaire, who was ouce the head of
the steel trust nud is now completing
in New York the costliest private res
idence iu the world, has once again
remarked that education and culture
unfit young men for success iu life.
Per Imps this is true as far as Schwab's
observation extouds. But it must be
understood that tho brain of Churles
M. Sohwab has a very limited hori
zon. Great suooesaes are being achiev
ed every day for tho development nud
betterment of humanity, whioh a
Sohwao can no more appreciate and
comprehend than a pig can understand
art The pig come to think of it
has a tiny little brain. But every
fraction of its intellectual energy is
devoted to the welfare of its stomach.
You see a lot of so-called human be
ings that seem to be built on the same
plan. There is a sort of fatality lead
Department
Make
Your
appointments;
Here
ing, thenf to tbe"acoumulation of mon
ey. . They have'marvelous cunning in
getting rich, but if yon touch their
minds on any other question you find
them blank. The man who thinks of
nothing but making money may not be
capable of realizing that other people
can think of nobler purposes. Like
the pig, with its snout so deep in the
trough that its eyes are buried in the
slop, its human prototype may also be
unable to see or think of anything in
the world but the one business of get
ting all that's to be got It is right
and proper that the pig should have
no thought but for his stomach it is
made that way. But with man it is
different; to have a pig's mind he
must acquire it by killing the best
there is in him. By will he renounces
manhood and debases himself to the
level of the animal. He spills no blood,
but he murders a man to make a pig.
It is the basest of suicides, and per
haps the commonest It is right and
proper, too, that a man should make
all the money he can honestly and use
wisely. The man who makes money,
as a means to an end, is not to be des
pised. He is doing his part of the
World's work, and the part is no small
or ignominious one. But there are
other duties in the world besides
making money. There are qualities
in the human mind and soul infinitely
more important than those whioh
make large aooumulations of money
possible.
The Ladies' Aid.
We've put a fine addition on the good
old church at home, '
It's just the latest kilter, with a gal
lery and dome,
It seats a thousand people finest
churoh in all the town.
And when 'twas dedicated, why we
planked ten thousand down ;
That is, we paid five thousand every
fellow did his best
And the Ladies' Aid Sooiety, it prom
ised all the rest.
We've got an organ in the ohuroh
the finest in the land,
It's got a thousand pipes or more, its
melody is grand.
And when we sit on cushioned pews
and hear the master play,
It carries us to realms of bliss unnum
bered miles away.
It cost a cool three thousand, and it's
stood the hardest test;
We'll pay a thousand on it the La
dies' Aid the rest
They'll give a hundred sociables, can
tatas, too, and teas;
They'll bake a thousand angel cakes,
and tons of cream they'll freeze.
They'll beg and scrape and toil and
sweat for seven years or more,
And then they'll start all o'er again,
for a carpet for the floor.
No, it isn't just like digging out the
money from the vest
When the Ladies' Aid gets busy and
says, 'We'll pay the rest."
Of course we're proud of our big
ohuroh from pulpit up to spire;
It is the darling of our eyes, the crown
of our desire,
But when I see the sisters work to raise
the oash that lacks,
I somehow feel the church is built on
women's tired backs.
J Aud sometimes I can't help thinking
when we reach the regions blest,
That men will get the toil aud sweat,
and the Laides' Aid tho rest.
From the Reformed Church Herald,
Lisbon, la.
Just reoeived, latest styles in beitn,
shirtwaist sets, back and side oombs,
at Managua's.
For Sale.
Tho 0. C. Book place near the
school houso is oflored for sale. Good
housj, two aud one-half lots for sale
cheap. A span of good work horses
will bo taken in trade. O. C. Beck,
Athena.
BANNER 8 A LVE
the) moat haallna salve In th world.
Oregon
SiioiT Line
2 Union Pacific
TWO TRAINS EAST DAIY
Through Pullman standard and sleeping
curs dally K"nRUa, t'liiOHgojiourlsl siwpiug
oardnttyto Kaums City; through Pullman
tourist sleeping cars, personally conducted,
weekly to (.'hlcaco. with free reclining
chair cars, teats free, to the east daily iron)
Jfeudteton.
akkivi
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TIME SCHEDULES
VTHENA. ORE.
riKPART
Daily.
Walla Walla. Day-
ion, romeroy. lw-
tston.Coieax, Pull
man, Moscow, the
Couer d'Alena dia
trk.t, Spokane aud
8:43 a. m.
: a.m.
ait poinu norm.
Mixed, Walla Wat
to Pendleton.
12:30 p n
Fast Hail for Pen
dleton, LaUnuide.
Hater city, and all
points ejstTia Hun
tiOEton, Ore., Atwi
for Umatilla, Hepp
ner. The Dalls-n.
4:53 p m
4:53 p. m
Portland. Aniorm
(Willamette Vallej
Taooma. Seattle, a'l
und Culms.
Mixed, Pendleton
7:03 p m
to Walla Walla
11. W. Smith Agent.
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Athena
. FACTS IN NATURE.
Kot Only J3o We Get Inspiration Float
Nature, Bat Health as Well.
For people who are. rnn-down and nerv
ous, who suffer from Indigestion or dys
pepsia, he.tdachn, biliousness, or torpid
liver, coated tongue with bitter taste in
the morning and poor apjietite, it be
come neeeary to turn to some tonic or
strenprthener which will assist Mature
and help them to (ret on their feet and
put the body into Its propor condition. It
Is becomina more and mnreapiinreut that
Nature's most valuable health - giving
agents arc to be found in forest plants
and roots.
Nearly forty years ago. Dr. R.V. Pierce,
now consulting physician to the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo,
N. Y., discovered that by scientifically
extracting and combining certain medici
nal principles from native roots, taken
from our American forests, he could pro
duce a medicine which was marvelously
efficient in curing cases of blood disorder
and liver and stomach trouble as well as
many other chronic, or lingering ail
ments. This concentrated extract of
Nature's vitality he named "Golden Med
ical Discovery." It purities the blood by
putting the stomach and liver Into
healthy condition, thereby helping the
digestion and assimilation of food which
feeds the blood. Thereby it cures weak
stomach, Indigestion, torpid liver, or bil
iousness, and kindred derangements.
If you have coated tongue, with bitter
or bad taste in tho morning, frequent
headaches, feel weak, easily tired, stitches
or pain in side, back gives out easily and
aches, belching of gas, constipation, or
Irregular bowels, feel flashes of heat al
ternating with -chilly sensations or kin
dred symptoms, they point to derange
ment of your stomach, liver and kidneys,
which the "Golden Medical Discovery"
will correct more speedily and perma
nently than any other known agent. Con
tains no alcohol or habit-forming drugs.
All Its Ingredients printed in plain Eng
lish on wrapper.
The sole motive for substitution Is to
permit the dealer to make a littlo more
profit. He gains; yon lose. Accept no sub
stitute for "Golden Medical Discovery."
Constipation cause and aggravates
many serious diseases. It is thoroughly
cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
One a laxative; two or three are cathartic
The
COMMERCIAL
LIVERY, FEED
and SALE STABLE.
Best Turnouts .
In Eastern Oregon
Stock Boarded
by the Day, Week
or Month
h KING BROTHERS Prep
THE PALACE
DRUG STORE
WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
You know your doctor is all right, but
how about the filling of prescriptions?
Our Prescriptions
are precisely as the doctor ordered
nothing more, nothing lees and
always exactly right.
THE WRIGHT LIVERY
AKD FEED STABLE
COQQ HORSES AND RIGS- REAJGHABLE PRICES
DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED-
Horses boarded by the day, week or month
Stables ou 2nd street, South of Main street
J. F. Wright, - - - Proprietor
Try The
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For
GOOD WORK
HENRY KEENE, Agent,
ATHENA, OREGON.
Cut flowers
and floral Decorations
RUSH ORDERS WILL RE
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TENTION. James Wait,
Walla Walla Washington
No. 9 South 2nd St. Phone, 827.
BLACKSMITH AND
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A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop West ot King's Barn, Athena.
YOUR MOftlY BACK
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Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
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V WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES,
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ATHENA.
"Saving at the Spigot
Wasting at the Bung"
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It covers more surface, spreads easier, and lasts
longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed
lead and oil.
CALL TOR
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i THE
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t J. B. FROOME, prop f
Iff
Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
Iff
THE ST. NICHOLS J
Is the only one that can accom roodH if
oomraerQlBl travelers.
' Can beieoomended for its clean and
well ventilated room.
Cob. Mam ako Third, Atiiena, or.
PETERSON & PETERSON,
Attorneys-at-Law
A1IIENA, - - - - OREGON
to please
PENDLETON, OREGON.
CITY MEAT MARKET
C. II. Sherman Prop.
Nothing too good for our jal
roDs. We cut the best meat money
can buy. Fish and oysters in
season. Give us a trial.
PARKER
& LAKE'S
Kvttrythinf Fir!
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Mud l'i-t,i - 1 n -
south s:rE KM
STREET v ATHENA
OREGON
HIP
That's what buying poor paint
means. Paint may be low
priced by the gallon and be
extravagant to use owing to
to it s poor covering power
and wearing quality. After
the paint is applied it's too late
to save. Start right and use
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